The share of residents working from home in the D.C. area almost quadrupled between 2019 and 2022 at its peak, according to Coworking Magazine — and that may have had a positive environmental impact across the region.
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Feds Give Final Approval to Md. Offshore Wind Project
Maryland Matters
The federal government gave its final approval Tuesday to a plan to place 114 energy-generating wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City.
Clean Energy Industry Questions a New PJM Proposal That Could Move Fossil Fuel Projects to the Front of the Interconnection Queue
Inside Climate News
PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for the District of Columbia and portions of 13 states across the mid-Atlantic, South, and Midwest, has drawn the ire of the clean energy industry over its proposal to prioritize large nuclear and gas projects over renewable energy projects that have waited for years to connect to the region’s electric grid.
Virginia, Regional Governors to Discuss Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals
Virginia Mercury
After decades of work to clean up the polluted Chesapeake Bay, the federal, state and local partners within the 64,000-mile watershed have acknowledged they won’t reach their 2025 goals. But neither are they giving up.
VA Protects Almost 7,000 Acres in Chesapeake Bay Watershed
The Bay Journal
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced $14.4 million for land conservation grants on Nov. 27, much of it awarded to locations in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
National and International News
DOE Loan Programs Office Races to Get Cleantech Money Out as Trump Looms
Canary Media
The office helped Tesla get its start and has lent billions to everything from transmission line projects to battery manufacturers. Its future is uncertain under Trump.
How One Condo Complex Installed EV Charging for Just $405 Per Parking Spot
Electrek
A condo complex in Northern California has installed charging for all of its 90 housing unit with an after-incentive cost of around $405 per unit – solving one of the only real problems with EV charging.
Small SUVs Are Now the Country’s Cleanest Cars. Really.
Washington Post
For decades, there’s been a clear king of efficiency and environmental friendliness among U.S. cars: the sedan. But the reigning champion has been dethroned, and the cleanest car category in America is now the compact SUV, according to data released last month by the Environmental Protection Agency.
US Agriculture Has the Potential to be Greenhouse Gas Negative. Here’s How.
Agriculture Dive
Widescale adoption of more sustainable farming practices could allow the U.S. agriculture sector to sequester more carbon than it emits, a groundbreaking new study suggests.
The World Has Been Warming Faster Than Expected. Scientists Now Think They Know Why
CNN
They know the extraordinary heat was fueled by a number of factors, predominantly planet-heating pollution from burning fossil fuels and the natural climate pattern of El Niño. But those alone did not explain the unusually rapid temperature rise.